SOA filling the Gaps

I recently read Tien Tzue 's post titled The End of ERP . As usual, I suspect the validity of statements beginning with the End of ... without a question mark in the end. Tien Tzue's statement is not an exception. According to Tien Tzue there is a shift from 20th century products based economy to 21th century Service subscription economy, therefore ERP is doomed. He refers to the acquisitions of Cloud ERP solutions companies,  Successful Factors by SAP and Taleo by Oracle , as an End Of Life signs of traditional ERP.   No ERP company can afford to ignore Cloud based ERP, but that does not mean that SAP, Oracle and other traditional vendor, are going to kill the goose who lays golden eggs i.e. their traditional On-Premise ERP suits. SaaS based ERP is a better fit for some enterprises and Traditional ERP fits better for other enterprises. Three years ago I already discussed the issue of Future Applications: SaaS or Traditional .   Basically it i...

O n March 28th 2011 I participated in the STKI Summit by the local analysts company STKI.  The company headed by Dr. Jimmy Schwarzkopf is focused on the Israeli market.  Presentations were based on an Israeli market survey performed by the company. The company's analysts presentations topics were Infrastructure Trends, Applications Trends, Office of the CIO trends and Infrastructure Services Trends, followed by wrap-up IT Trends presentation by Jimmy. The survey may not be accurate but the information is valuable and probably reflects the overall market status.     The theme of this year conference was: Manage Scattered. The prime areas appearing in all presentations were: Mobile Computing , Social Computing and Cloud Computing .  The combination of them is the basis for creation of totally different IT industry, as well as Business and Personal Interaction and Collaboration. The theme is about IT efforts and solutions which are executed wit...